George Santayana Top 10 Quotes

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana(Quoted in the Wisdom of George Santayana, 1964)

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana(Soliloquies in England, 1922)

8

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana(Soliloquies in England, 1922)

7

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said..

George Santayana(The Sense of Beauty, 1896)

6

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana(Life of Reason, 1905)

5

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

George Santayana(The Sense of Beauty, 1896)

4

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana(Soliloquies in England, 1922)

3

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

George Santayana(Premonition)

2

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana(Life of Reason, 1905)

1

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.